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[Narrator] Deep in the Amazon,

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there’s a place where
dolphins fly through trees.

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I'm amazed about how
it's possible these animals,

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these incredible creatures
are here in the jungle.

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[Narrator] A place where
bears live in the clouds.

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The Andean bear is like the
engineer of the cloud forest.

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[Narrator]A place where
turtles have guardian angels.

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It is a place that

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has caught me in such a way that

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I can't imagine it
will let me go.

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[Narrator] And the trees,

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they soak up 20 billion
tons of water every day

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to create rivers in the sky.

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[thunder]

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That water is what
connects it all.

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-We're talking about the
largest river of the world.

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It's not just water in rivers.

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It's water in the glaciers,
in the atmosphere,

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in the clouds.

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[Narrator] The Amazon is
changing in real-time,

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and there’s so
much we don’t know.

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-There are a lot of threats
here in the Amazon, but still,

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there are some people trying
to make the difference.

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[Narrator] In an unprecedented
two-year expedition,

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National Geographic is bringing
together a passionate

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group of scientists to
follow the water,

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as they explore the magnificent
ecosystems within.

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From the tops of the Andes,
across 4,000 miles,

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to the Atlantic Ocean,
and beyond.

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-Science enables us to
see into the future.

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[Narrator] To ensure
that it’s still standing

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for the next generation.

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-It matters what we do.

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[♪ theme music plays]

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[Narrator] When you
think of the Amazon,

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these 20,000-foot peaks
may not come to mind,

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but this is where it all begins.

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-We actually are in
the Amazon Basin.

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We're right on the edge,

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right on the eastern
side of the Andes.

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This is an important
water tower.

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The snow and ice
that you see here

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eventually is going to make
its way down into the Amazon.

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[Narrator] But the glaciers
here are disappearing,

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and we don’t know how quickly.

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That’s what National Geographic
Explorer Baker Perry

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is here to find out.

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-I’m leading this expedition
to install a weather station

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near the summit of Ausangate.

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[Narrator] Having lived in
the Andes when he was younger,

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this is a sort of
homecoming for Baker.

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[Baker Perry]
Just in my lifetime,

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I've seen tremendous
changes happening in the Amazon

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with ongoing deforestation.

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And what we're trying
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how glaciers are responding.

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-We have a very, very limited
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or climate at the tops of
these Andean mountains.

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[Narrator] So Baker, Tom,

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and their team of local
guides and experts

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set out to tackle one
of the highest peaks

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in the Amazon Basin.

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[Tom Matthews] These enormous
glaciers store water

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for communities downstream.

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As the climate's warming,

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that kind of reliable source
of fresh water is in danger.

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[Narrator] That water is
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cycling through all of Amazonia.

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[Tom Matthews] The water
molecules that fall as snow

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on the Andean peaks are coming
from evaporation from these

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mighty trees in the Amazon.

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[Narrator] Flowing up
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it releases into the atmosphere.

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[Baker Perry] Then it's going
to condense out, form a cloud.

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And that cloud is gonna
be moved by the winds

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into the Andes,

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where it's going to
eventually fall as snow.

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[Narrator] When
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the entire system reacts.

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[Tom Matthews] If you cut
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the amount of snowfall
that occurs here drops.

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[Narrator] A weather station
will provide insight

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into how much these
glaciers are shrinking.

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But first, they
need to get there.

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[Baker Perry] Ausangate is
not an easy mountain.

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[Tom Matthews] It's a huge effort to get
weather equipment up to these elevations.

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That's why it hasn't
really been done before.

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Good luck up there.
Thank you.

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[Baker Perry] The
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these expeditions are real.

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[Tom Matthews] The hardest
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the lack of oxygen.

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It's about half past
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looking forward to sunrise in
about three and a half hours.

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-We have one little
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And then another fixed
line going up there.

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[Narrator] If they succeed,

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the data from atop
Ausangate will be invaluable

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to the millions of
people who depend on it.

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-In the last 10 years,
water is decreasing every year,

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every year is less,
less, less water.

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[Narrator] For
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Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya,
this loss is personal.

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She grew up in the high Andes,

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where the glacier has
always protected the people.

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-The glacier is a key
part of our culture.

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[Narrator] As a child,
her grandmother would

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tell stories about
a mythical bear.

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[Ruthmery] This character
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semi-god between a
bear and a human.

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They go to the Ausangate
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communities as a sign they’re
going to have more water.

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[Narrator] The Ukuku story
has played out for centuries

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in the Qoyllur Rit’l festival.

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[Ruthmery] My grandmother
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was very nearby.

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But now, with climate change,
the snow is far away.

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They are not able to bring
this ice cube anymore.

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[Narrator] Ukukus
are more than a myth.

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-Ukuku means the Andean
bear in Quechuan, yeah.

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[Narrator] For Ruth, the real
thing is just as mysterious.

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[Ruthmery] We are trying to
understand the secret life

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of the Andean bear.

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[Narrator] A creature
we know little about,

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except that it’s vital for
forests in the clouds

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that sit below Ausangate.

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[♪ peaceful music plays]

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Glaciers may be the water
tower for the Amazon Basin,

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but Andean cloud forests
are the rain machine.

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They act like a sponge,

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soaking up moisture and
releasing it downstream.

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[Ruthmery] I always
liked to climb trees.

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It's a different perspective
being in the canopy.

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It's a different world,
completely different world.

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[Narrator] Both the forest
and bears are threatened,

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and they need each
other to thrive.

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As voracious plant eaters,

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bears spread seeds
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[Ruthmery] They are very
good tree climbers.

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They spend most of their
time actually in the trees.

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[Narrator] Camera traps will
track their movements to help

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Ruth understand their
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-All good.

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Let's see what the
camera trap captures.

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[Ruthmery] The Andean bears
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especially in this
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In order to get
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we need to also hike a lot.

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[Narrator] It’s time
to check the cameras,

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all 75 of them.

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[Ruthmery] We leave these
camera traps for the whole year,

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but we are doing the
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-Oh, no bears.

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[Narrator] While the
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others aren’t so shy.

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- Is it a lone little fox?
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-What do you see?

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-A puma.

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-Oh wow, a big one!

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[Narrator] To follow
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Ruth brings along
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-Ukuku!

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[Ruthmery] Yes, yes, yes, yes.

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As the bears are moving,

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they are helping to disperse
many of these tree species.

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They eat the seed
and they, they poo...

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[Ruthmery] So this poo
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the nutrients to, to grow.

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-This is vaccinium.

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It is a wild blueberry.

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And this is one of the
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The feces we just found

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contained fruits of this kind.

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We have a camera trap
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Let’s just hope
the camera worked.

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[♪ peaceful music plays]

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-Bear!

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Bear, bear!

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A little one!

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[scratching]

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When we see a bear like this,
we all are happy, very happy.

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[laughing]

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[Narrator] While the
cameras reveal bear behavior,

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to really understand
how they move,

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they need to get closer.

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[speaking Spanish]

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[Ruthmery] The first time
we capture our first bear,

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I couldn't describe
the feeling I, I have.

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I don’t know, like my brother,
like my elder brother.

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I feel like part of my family.

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It's just incredible creature.

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[Narrator] GPS collars
track their every move.

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And for the first time, a
National Geographic Critter-Cam

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goes on walkabout with
a bear named Sunchu.

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[Ruthmery] We can see from
the perspective of the bear

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how it's moving around.

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We are following the journey
and we're learning a lot.

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[Narrator] It turns out Sunchu,

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and the other 40-plus
bears she’s identified so far,

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are covering a larger and
higher range than expected.

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-You see some clusters.

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This means they spend
quite a lot of time in

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this part of the forest.

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[Narrator] Her findings
are extraordinary.

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As the climate warms
and the bears move higher,

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they’ll bring seeds with them,

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helping forests regrow
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-Now we are thinking how
the bears are gonna help

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many of these tree species
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[Narrator] They just
may be the key to ensuring

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the cloud forest survives.

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So it can keep the water moving

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down the Andes and
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where it begins to transform
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-It's not just one river.

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You have thousands of
small rivers just flowing

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to the big Amazon.

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[Narrator] Making up
20% of the freshwater

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for the entire planet.

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-The Amazon is the
heart of the planet,

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and all these rivers are
the veins of this heart.

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[Narrator] One magical
creature considers the

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whole river system home.

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-Dolphins don’t
recognize borders.

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They basically move
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[Narrator] So does
Fernando Trujillo,

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who moved to the
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to dedicate his life to them.

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[Fernando Trujillo]
When I just came here,

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it was difficult to
find the dolphins because

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I didn't have a trained eye.

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And this was full of life,
but I couldn't see the life.

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So it took time until
I start to understand

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a little bit the river.

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[Narrator] After 35 years,

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Fernando’s vision is clear,

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protect the animal keeping
the equilibrium of this system.

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[clicking]

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[Fernando Trujillo] Dolphins are
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They are the top predators.

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They are able to move in
the main rivers, lakes,

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flooded forests, everywhere.

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[Narrator] That equilibrium
is under constant assault

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and pink dolphin populations

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are decreasing in
record numbers.

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-The deforestation is there,

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there are burnings,
there are pollution.

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[Narrator] And there’s drought.

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-More than 100 dolphins
were found dead in a lake

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in the Amazon over seven days.

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The main suspicion is that
the deaths are related to

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drought and the
high water temperature.

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[Narrator] The Amazon saw its
worst drought on record in 2023.

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Low water levels trap
more heat from the sun,

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spiking temperatures.

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[Fernando Trujillo] For the
first time, we have a

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kind of phenomenon
where a lot of dolphins

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were dying very quickly.

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We lost 70 dolphins
in just one day.

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Millions of fish have died.

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[Narrator] Fernando’s
working with local teams

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to conserve these dolphins
any way they can.

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By tagging them,

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they hope to identify
feeding and nursing areas

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and expand protections.

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-And who better than
them to show us?

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[splashing]

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[chatter]

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[Fernando Trujillo]
Go, go, go, go!

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- Go, go! Left.
- Left.

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-In the capture of
dolphins you have to move

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faster than in fishing.

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Because when you spread the net,
fish fall in it by themselves.

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On the other hand, the
dolphin must be encircled

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in order to capture it.

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[overlapping chatter]

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-Now we captured three dolphins,

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they are inside the big net.

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[overlapping chatter]

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-[in Spanish] On three,
understand? One, two, three.

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One, two, three, up!

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[overlapping chatter]

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-When I am near a dolphin,

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I feel that my heart
is totally filled.

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Like I have a purpose in life.

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[Narrator] During a capture,

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veterinarian
María Jimena Valderrama

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monitors the dolphin's health.

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[overlapping chatter]

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[dolphin squealing]

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[overlapping chatter]

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-Let’s keep quiet.
This is a pregnant female.

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Quiet please, everybody.

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[Fernando Trujillo]
It's in some way invasive.

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We are taking out of the
water an aquatic animal.

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-There we are taking its
heart rate and respiratory rate.

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-[in Spanish] Breathe!

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-If I see that
the animal is too stressed,

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I think it's always best
to release the animal.

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Because the main thing
for us is its well-being.

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-This is a female, a big one,
two meters, 20.

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It's already pregnant.

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A dolphin can have one calf
every four or five years and

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their pregnancy is 13 months.

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So in a lifetime they,
they can have like

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four or five calves.

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So it's very important for
this animal to try to conserve.

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Any animal, they count.

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-I’m in charge of taking
both blood and tissue samples.

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We tag it quickly.

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With anesthesia, we make sure
that the animal doesn’t feel

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any pain during

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installation of the
satellite transmitter.

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-[in Spanish] You, go there.

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The tagging became a very
powerful tool to understand

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what areas are
really important for

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the conservation
of the dolphins.

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[splashing]

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[cheering, applause]

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[Narrator] Fernando’s
finding that males have

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large home ranges.

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[Fernando Trujillo] The males
move away looking for

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other groups of females.

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[Narrator] But females
stay in areas where they

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always have access to food.

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This puts them in direct
conflict with humans.

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-Sometimes, the fishermen say,

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look the dolphins
are stealing our fish.

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They go to our nets and
take the fish from our nets.

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-These dolphins have learned
to associate fishing activities

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with a free meal.

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[Narrator] Marine biologist
and photographer

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Thomas Peschak joins the
expedition near the Negro River

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to get a look at this behavior

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from the dolphins’ perspective.

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-The direct conflict can
end with a dolphin death,

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or it can damage the
net from fishermen.

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[Narrator] But there’s
a possible solution.

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[Fernando Trujillo] The pingers
are acoustic deflectors,

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it’s a way to put
noise on the nets

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to avoid the dolphins
approach the net.

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[Narrator] Pingers have
worked in the ocean,

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but they’ve never been
tested in the Amazon.

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[Fernando Trujillo] So
we are testing here for the

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first time with Mariana.

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-We are working with the
community inside Acajatuba Lake,

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and we have two
fishermen supporting us

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doing the pilot tests.

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These give us some learning
about how dolphins are

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motivated to catch
the fish in the net.

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They perceive the sound,
and back away.

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Right after that,
they try again.

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[clicking]

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They persist and get the fish.

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[Narrator] The pingers likely
didn’t work because the

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dolphins in this lake
are used to people.

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So testing continues.

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[Mariana Frias] I am hopeful
because if it works,

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it's mutual benefit for
conservation and people.

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-Knowing how they behave,

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knowing how they steal a fish,

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might actually help better
employ these pingers to

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deter these dolphins
from stealing fish.

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[Narrator] As a National
Geographic photographer,

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Thomas’s ultimate goal
is to help create the will

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to protect the Amazon
and all its creatures.

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[Fernando Trujillo] We need
beautiful pictures underwater

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to connect the people
with the dolphins.

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[Tom Peschak] Diving with
these dolphins is truly magical.

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There are individuals
that are incredibly shy.

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There are individuals
that are bold.

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And there are curious ones.

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[clicking]

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[♪ inquisitive music plays]

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[♪ inquisitive music plays]

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[clicking]

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[♪ inquisitive music plays]

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[thunderstorm]

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[Narrator] Every year,
during the rainy season,

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an incredible phenomenon
occurs throughout the Amazon.

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The rivers flood into
the surrounding forests,

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up to 12 miles past
the riverbanks and

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nearly 50 feet deep.

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-Everything has evolved
to follow that pulse,

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it's like a heartbeat.

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The forest, the animals,

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the people that live here,

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they're all living to the
pulse of flood and dry.

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[Narrator]
Including the dolphins.

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Flexible flippers and
unfused vertebrae give them

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seemingly magical powers.

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-They can literally
fly between the trees.

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That's amazing.

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[Narrator] They rely
on these trees to feed

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their fishy prey.

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When the forest floods,

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fish can access fruits
and seeds on the branches.

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[Thiago Silva] There is always
this connection between systems

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that is very important to
maintaining biodiversity,

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and things working
as they should.

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[Narrator]
But for how much longer?

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When threats like deforestation
and warming temperatures

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disrupt the Amazon’s ability
to create its own rainfall,

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the entire system reacts,
including the flood pulse.

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-If you change the availability
of water, just a little bit,

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the ecosystem is
not used to that.

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And it's gonna start
behaving differently.

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[Narrator] How the trees
will react is a mystery

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Thiago Silva and his
team head to Brazil's

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flooded forests to solve.

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[Thiago Silva] We're here to
understand how trees can cope

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with months and
months of flooding

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and how climate change
could affect the future

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of these wetland forests.

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-We don't know about the
physiological properties

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of these trees.

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So we don't know exactly
how they will cope.

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[Narrator] They work
in the dead of night,

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collecting samples while
the plants are resting.

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-The idea is to get the
fully exposed branches

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so where the sun is
illuminating all of these

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branches during the day,

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and then he has to climb
very high and to get these

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very big branches
for us to sample.

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So it's quite an adventure.

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[Narrator] Julia is
investigating traits,

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like vessel size,
telling her how each tree

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will respond to wetter
or drier conditions.

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Thiago is using
cutting-edge technology

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to map the bigger picture.

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[Thiago Silva] What fascinates
me about plants is how they

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run this whole
mechanism of maintaining

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the environment ecosystem,

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while the animals,

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most of the time they're
just the, the actors, right?

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But the plants, they
really set the scene.

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[Narrator] Now,
for the first time,

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Thiago’s bringing that scene
to the rest of the world.

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He’s using LIDAR
to create a 3-D,

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360-degree snapshot.

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-I like plants equipped
with technology.

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[laughs]

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This is a terrestrial
laser scanner.

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It will send a beam
of lasers in a cone

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all around this rotating head.

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The idea here is to
overfly with the drone and

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get the 3D model from
the top of the canopy.

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[buzzing]

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One thing that we
expect to be able to do

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is to have a virtual environment

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where anyone can go
inside the forest.

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And then see how
the water levels could rise,

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and you can almost physically
experience what it means

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to have 10 meters of
water flooding a forest.

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[Narrator] Thiago and
Julia's findings will give

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a glimpse into the future,

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predicting which trees may not
survive and what that means

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for the creatures
who depend on them.

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[Thiago Silva] I want to
understand enough of the system

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to be able to prepare for
that the best we can.

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And make sure that we
don't lose everything

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that those forests
have to offer.

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[Narrator] It’s not
just the animals who rely

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on these forests,

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but 40 million people
throughout the Amazon.

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[Thiago Silva] The vast majority
of the population lives

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just by the river.

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They depend on the
rivers for transportation.

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They depend on this
forest for the fish.

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They depend on it
for the timber itself.

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So everybody depends
on the Amazon to live.

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[Narrator] And the people
who live in the middle of it

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are the key to protecting it.

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-The river is our livelihood,

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but I think that if we
didn't have the river,

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a large part of
humanity wouldn't exist.

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[Narrator] The fight to
save this river economy

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drives another team of
Explorers deep into the Juruá,

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a tributary of the Amazon,

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to work alongside
local communities.

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-We see this relationship
as complementary,

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within that system,

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because people don’t
just live in the forest,

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they are part of it.

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-The ultimate goal
of our project

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is to try to understand
how we can align

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the protection of biodiversity
with people's well-being.

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[speaking Portuguese]

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[Narrator] The team
collaborates with locals

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to protect the
giant river turtle

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00:30:10,642 --> 00:30:13,394
and increase numbers
of arapaima,

497
00:30:15,688 --> 00:30:18,608
known locally as pirarucu.

498
00:30:18,691 --> 00:30:22,737
Both are important for
local food security,

499
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:26,241
but also have high
commercial value.

500
00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:29,953
-Uncontrolled exploitation
of this resource

501
00:30:30,036 --> 00:30:32,539
ended up greatly
reducing populations.

502
00:30:33,873 --> 00:30:36,543
-For me, pirarucu is
an Amazonian superstar.

503
00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:38,253
It’s bigger than me.

504
00:30:38,336 --> 00:30:40,088
It weighs more than me.

505
00:30:41,297 --> 00:30:44,843
It’s the largest freshwater
scaled fish in the world.

506
00:30:46,719 --> 00:30:48,513
[Narrator] But by the late ‘90s,

507
00:30:48,596 --> 00:30:51,516
it was nearly
fished to extinction.

508
00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:57,063
So researchers and local
fishermen joined forces to

509
00:30:57,146 --> 00:31:02,360
create a sustainable fishing
plan based on a quota system.

510
00:31:03,361 --> 00:31:05,697
-The protection
of aquatic environments,

511
00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:07,282
in which you
protect the pirarucu,

512
00:31:07,365 --> 00:31:09,784
is like keeping a bank account.

513
00:31:10,785 --> 00:31:13,162
[Narrator] João and the
team have been helping to

514
00:31:13,246 --> 00:31:17,584
implement that plan here
in the Juruá for 15 years.

515
00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:21,296
-If it weren’t for them,
maybe we wouldn't be

516
00:31:21,379 --> 00:31:23,882
where we are now.

517
00:31:23,965 --> 00:31:26,342
[Narrator] It’s an
incredible success story.

518
00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:31,556
The pirarucu population
has increased by 600%.

519
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,561
-We usually call the
pirarucu the "fish of change"

520
00:31:36,644 --> 00:31:39,439
because it has brought several
social and economic changes

521
00:31:39,522 --> 00:31:41,399
to these communities.

522
00:31:43,026 --> 00:31:47,113
[Narrator] Now, they’re taking
that success one step further.

523
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:54,913
-Using the GPS tag on Pirarucu,
it's a really challenging task

524
00:31:54,996 --> 00:31:57,457
because it was
never done before.

525
00:31:57,540 --> 00:32:01,377
It was only possible
because we worked together

526
00:32:01,461 --> 00:32:02,962
with local fishermen.

527
00:32:03,046 --> 00:32:05,673
So, they have this
historical knowledge

528
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:08,593
interacting with this species.

529
00:32:08,676 --> 00:32:12,680
-They are fundamental in
the process of understanding

530
00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:16,225
the best spot to
place the device.

531
00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:20,063
[Narrator] If it works,
real-time data tracking

532
00:32:20,146 --> 00:32:23,066
their range may lead to
additional protection,

533
00:32:23,149 --> 00:32:25,401
and ultimately, more fish.

534
00:32:25,485 --> 00:32:27,362
[cheering]

535
00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:33,618
-If we increase our
authorized quota number,

536
00:32:33,701 --> 00:32:35,870
we will have greater
income in the pockets

537
00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:37,830
of each pirarucu handler.

538
00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:46,172
[animal whooping]

539
00:32:48,216 --> 00:32:50,635
[Narrator] Further
down the Juruá River,

540
00:32:50,718 --> 00:32:54,222
João and Andressa join
forces with other locals

541
00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:59,602
in their fight to protect one
of the Amazon’s iconic species.

542
00:32:59,686 --> 00:33:03,523
-We monitor the beach at night,

543
00:33:03,606 --> 00:33:06,859
with a flashlight and a gun.

544
00:33:06,943 --> 00:33:09,821
I do six hours and my
son does six hours.

545
00:33:12,365 --> 00:33:15,243
If we aren't there monitoring,

546
00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:18,788
poachers will surely come.

547
00:33:21,791 --> 00:33:24,335
[Narrator] Every year,
female turtles emerge

548
00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:26,587
on the riverbanks to nest.

549
00:33:28,756 --> 00:33:32,343
They go into a trance-like
state while laying eggs,

550
00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:37,098
making everyone,
mom included, vulnerable.

551
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:39,267
Despite their protected status,

552
00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:44,105
river turtles and their eggs
are a delicacy in high demand.

553
00:33:44,188 --> 00:33:47,567
-For a large turtle in Carauari,

554
00:33:47,650 --> 00:33:50,778
they're asking for
400, 500 reais.

555
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:53,948
So they will watch me here
in Tabuleiro do Manariã,

556
00:33:54,032 --> 00:33:55,616
for three, four, five days.

557
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,370
[Narrator] The poachers
are relentless,

558
00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:04,792
destroying 99% of nests
on unguarded beaches.

559
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:08,755
-Almost all the turtles
that are laying their eggs

560
00:34:08,838 --> 00:34:10,673
in an unprotected beach

561
00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:14,552
are having their nests
predated by humans.

562
00:34:17,180 --> 00:34:19,098
[Narrator] For nearly 30 years,

563
00:34:19,182 --> 00:34:21,476
Bomba and his family
have lived across from

564
00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:23,227
the turtle nesting beach,

565
00:34:23,311 --> 00:34:25,855
or Tabuleiro, they protect.

566
00:34:25,938 --> 00:34:30,234
-We know that if we didn't
do this type of monitoring,

567
00:34:30,318 --> 00:34:33,321
the teenagers who
are growing up now,

568
00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:35,948
they wouldn't see any of this.

569
00:34:39,577 --> 00:34:42,914
-Bomba was one of
the first beach guardians

570
00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:45,833
and today he's a very
strong representative

571
00:34:45,917 --> 00:34:47,585
of all of the beach protectors.

572
00:34:50,046 --> 00:34:51,547
-What motivates me
to continue is

573
00:34:51,631 --> 00:34:54,258
seeing dad taking
care of them every year.

574
00:34:54,342 --> 00:34:56,094
He inspires me.

575
00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:01,307
-They work at night,
he and João Pedro.

576
00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:07,897
When it's six in the morning

577
00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:10,316
sometimes seven o'clock,

578
00:35:10,399 --> 00:35:12,318
I go see what has come
out on the tabuleiro.

579
00:35:14,862 --> 00:35:17,615
[Narrator] What Chica
finds is that their hard work

580
00:35:17,698 --> 00:35:18,950
is paying off.

581
00:35:20,493 --> 00:35:25,998
On protected beaches,
poaching rates drop to just 2%.

582
00:35:26,082 --> 00:35:28,376
-That to me
is the greatest joy I have.

583
00:35:28,459 --> 00:35:29,836
Numbers have increased a lot.

584
00:35:38,761 --> 00:35:40,531
-[in Portuguese] Good morning,
Mister Bomba! All good?

585
00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:42,116
-[in Portuguese] Good morning!
All good, and you?

586
00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:43,325
[Narrator] But unlike
the fishermen,

587
00:35:43,349 --> 00:35:46,853
beach guardians don’t
profit from what they protect.

588
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:50,231
To keep the program going,
they need help.

589
00:35:50,314 --> 00:35:52,167
-A problem we face with
the protection of beaches

590
00:35:52,191 --> 00:35:54,235
is that we still haven't
managed to get good pay

591
00:35:54,318 --> 00:35:55,653
for the beach protectors.

592
00:35:55,736 --> 00:35:58,823
[Narrator] Their payment
is a monthly food basket,

593
00:35:58,906 --> 00:36:00,783
and only for the
months they work,

594
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:02,952
from nesting to hatching.

595
00:36:03,035 --> 00:36:05,496
-This is something that,
if we stop and think about,

596
00:36:05,580 --> 00:36:07,874
it isn't enough even
for us to buy shoes,

597
00:36:07,957 --> 00:36:10,668
let alone keep a home.

598
00:36:10,751 --> 00:36:14,338
[Narrator] So they’re fully
dependent on fundraising.

599
00:36:14,422 --> 00:36:17,842
-One of the goals we have
is precisely to raise resources

600
00:36:17,925 --> 00:36:21,554
that allow this beach
protection program to extend

601
00:36:21,637 --> 00:36:23,139
indefinitely.

602
00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:33,316
-I know that
if we leave this place,

603
00:36:33,399 --> 00:36:37,195
poachers will
destroy everything.

604
00:36:38,988 --> 00:36:41,240
So we fight for it.

605
00:36:46,495 --> 00:36:49,916
[Narrator] The fight for a
healthy Amazon impacts us all.

606
00:36:51,792 --> 00:36:56,130
The forests here alone
store so much carbon,

607
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:59,425
they help protect
the entire planet.

608
00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:03,095
-Every forest, every tree
has a, a role in that

609
00:37:03,179 --> 00:37:06,265
because they remove CO2
from the atmosphere.

610
00:37:06,349 --> 00:37:09,644
[Narrator] Angelo Bernardino
wants to know how much.

611
00:37:09,727 --> 00:37:11,687
He heads to the
mouth of the river,

612
00:37:11,771 --> 00:37:13,898
where the water that
started in the glaciers

613
00:37:13,981 --> 00:37:15,858
empties into the Atlantic,

614
00:37:15,942 --> 00:37:18,945
at the rate of 84
Olympic swimming pools

615
00:37:19,028 --> 00:37:20,613
every second.

616
00:37:21,989 --> 00:37:24,659
-So, this should be fantastic!

617
00:37:24,742 --> 00:37:27,703
[Narrator] Here, lives a
coastal forest unlike

618
00:37:27,787 --> 00:37:30,039
anything they’ve ever seen.

619
00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:35,169
[♪ dramatic music playing]

620
00:37:36,921 --> 00:37:39,048
-This is a mixed
mangrove forest,

621
00:37:39,131 --> 00:37:42,260
so it's going to be really neat
to see what's going on in there.

622
00:37:42,343 --> 00:37:43,386
Let's go!

623
00:37:46,055 --> 00:37:48,349
[Narrator] Angelo’s studying
the Amazon mangroves

624
00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:49,767
for the first time.

625
00:37:51,018 --> 00:37:53,437
-I think mangroves here
in Brazil are such a, a,

626
00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:55,273
an iconic place.

627
00:37:55,356 --> 00:37:57,566
They’re really important to
protect the coast and

628
00:37:57,650 --> 00:37:59,652
as a life-supporting system.

629
00:37:59,735 --> 00:38:04,865
[Narrator] Most mangroves
grow in salt or brackish water.

630
00:38:04,949 --> 00:38:06,867
Not these.

631
00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:08,911
-We are right here at the ocean,

632
00:38:08,995 --> 00:38:10,663
and we are
measuring the salinity,

633
00:38:10,746 --> 00:38:13,749
and the salinity is zero,
it's freshwater.

634
00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:18,045
[Narrator] Forcing these
mangroves to adapt.

635
00:38:19,505 --> 00:38:23,009
[Angelo] This might be a very
unique forest on the coast of

636
00:38:23,092 --> 00:38:25,219
the Amazon, we've
never seen this before.

637
00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:26,804
-There it is!

638
00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:31,892
[grunting]

639
00:38:31,976 --> 00:38:34,478
[Narrator] They’re taking
samples to find out just

640
00:38:34,562 --> 00:38:37,231
how much carbon is stored here.

641
00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:38,649
-What do you think?

642
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,526
-I’d reckon it’s about
400 years' worth of

643
00:38:40,609 --> 00:38:42,403
sediment deposition here.

644
00:38:42,486 --> 00:38:43,529
-Nice.

645
00:38:44,530 --> 00:38:48,242
-What's really important, guys,
is to twist all the time,

646
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,453
so hopefully you get
your soil sample out.

647
00:38:50,536 --> 00:38:52,788
Look at that.
That's beautiful.

648
00:38:52,872 --> 00:38:55,458
We’ve got it.
We got our two-meter core.

649
00:38:55,541 --> 00:39:00,046
But what's incredible is how
much carbon we can still see

650
00:39:00,129 --> 00:39:01,505
even at two meters in depth.

651
00:39:01,589 --> 00:39:04,759
You can even see old leaves
that are thousands of years old

652
00:39:04,842 --> 00:39:07,011
that have been
preserved in the soils.

653
00:39:08,554 --> 00:39:10,765
[Narrator] Amazon
rainforests sequester

654
00:39:10,848 --> 00:39:14,393
120 billion tons of carbon.

655
00:39:14,477 --> 00:39:18,481
It turns out these
mangroves contain even more.

656
00:39:19,523 --> 00:39:22,526
[Angelo] Amazon mangroves hold
three to four times more carbon

657
00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:25,780
than the same area in the
Amazon upland forests.

658
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:30,910
We can use this natural
function of mangroves

659
00:39:30,993 --> 00:39:32,328
in the Amazon River mouth

660
00:39:32,411 --> 00:39:34,955
towards mitigation
of climate change.

661
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:37,208
They are sustaining life
by just being there,

662
00:39:37,291 --> 00:39:38,626
by just being preserved.

663
00:39:40,961 --> 00:39:44,757
[Narrator] The Amazon’s global
impact doesn’t stop here,

664
00:39:46,675 --> 00:39:48,928
and neither does the Amazon.

665
00:39:50,471 --> 00:39:53,933
The plume of fresh water and
sediment that pours from the

666
00:39:54,016 --> 00:39:56,227
Amazon into the ocean

667
00:39:56,310 --> 00:39:59,355
reaches as far as the
Caribbean Islands.

668
00:40:00,564 --> 00:40:03,984
-So you can actually detect the
freshwater of the Amazon

669
00:40:04,068 --> 00:40:06,695
as far north as Puerto Rico.

670
00:40:09,490 --> 00:40:11,158
[Narrator] All that freshwater

671
00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:13,494
carries an infusion
of nutrients,

672
00:40:13,577 --> 00:40:15,830
whose impact on the
marine ecosystem

673
00:40:15,913 --> 00:40:18,582
is yet to be fully understood.

674
00:40:18,666 --> 00:40:21,293
-We are now in Tobago,
in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

675
00:40:21,377 --> 00:40:25,214
[Narrator] Tom and Angelo
team up to see it first-hand.

676
00:40:25,297 --> 00:40:26,966
-Are we all ready?

677
00:40:28,050 --> 00:40:30,428
[splashing]

678
00:40:34,974 --> 00:40:37,893
[Angelo] A lot of the marine
life that we see here may be

679
00:40:37,977 --> 00:40:41,564
directly dependent on the
food that is delivered by

680
00:40:41,647 --> 00:40:43,482
the Amazon River plume.

681
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,487
[Tom Peschak] And that
translates into a completely

682
00:40:48,571 --> 00:40:49,947
different marine ecosystem.

683
00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:54,201
Here, you have reefs that
are dominated by sponges.

684
00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:55,578
[Angelo] Even like blue sponges.

685
00:40:55,661 --> 00:40:57,913
I’ve never seen blue
sponges in my life.

686
00:40:57,997 --> 00:41:01,876
[Tom Peschak] The sponge is
actually uniquely responsible

687
00:41:01,959 --> 00:41:05,880
for taking the riches
the Amazon River bestows on

688
00:41:05,963 --> 00:41:08,716
the Caribbean and
transforming it into

689
00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:12,261
compounds that all the other
species in the food web

690
00:41:12,344 --> 00:41:14,638
can actually access as well.

691
00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:16,891
-We are only scratching
the surface in terms of

692
00:41:16,974 --> 00:41:19,894
understanding the far reaches
of the Amazon River plume.

693
00:41:22,313 --> 00:41:24,064
[Narrator] When it
comes to the Amazon,

694
00:41:24,148 --> 00:41:25,649
one thing is clear.

695
00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:27,818
Everything is connected,

696
00:41:27,902 --> 00:41:30,404
from sponges in the Caribbean,

697
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:34,825
all the way back to its
icy origin in the Andes.

698
00:41:34,909 --> 00:41:37,828
[tapping]

699
00:41:41,373 --> 00:41:42,416
-We’re good.

700
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,670
-Okay, we've powered it up.
The battery's charging.

701
00:41:46,754 --> 00:41:47,796
Awesome job.

702
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,592
This weather station is the, the
highest in Peru and the highest

703
00:41:51,675 --> 00:41:53,886
in the tropical Andes.

704
00:41:53,969 --> 00:41:57,973
And ultimately will
improve climate projections

705
00:41:58,057 --> 00:41:59,600
into the future.

706
00:41:59,683 --> 00:42:01,883
[Tom Matthews] We're in a
position that we know that the

707
00:42:01,936 --> 00:42:05,314
decisions we take in the next
decade or so will determine

708
00:42:05,397 --> 00:42:06,708
what the face of
the Earth looks like

709
00:42:06,732 --> 00:42:08,984
for thousands of years to come.

710
00:42:09,068 --> 00:42:11,779
What we do in the next
few years really matters.

711
00:42:11,862 --> 00:42:14,990
[Ruthmery] So everybody can
keep enjoying this beautiful,

712
00:42:15,074 --> 00:42:17,660
amazing place that is
our home, no? Our planet.

713
00:42:26,710 --> 00:42:30,005
[buzzing]

714
00:42:37,930 --> 00:42:41,642
[announcer] Entonces estamos
Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia,

715
00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:44,103
Colombia, Ecuador, India,

716
00:42:44,186 --> 00:42:46,522
Nepal, y Venezuela.
Perfecto.

717
00:42:46,605 --> 00:42:47,773
[applause]

718
00:42:47,856 --> 00:42:49,441
-1, 2, 3.
River dolphins!

719
00:42:49,525 --> 00:42:51,110
[applause]

720
00:43:02,371 --> 00:43:07,251
[♪ dramatic music plays]

721
00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:11,171
[squeaking]

722
00:43:21,307 --> 00:43:23,107
-The answers about how to
conserve the Amazon,

723
00:43:23,183 --> 00:43:26,145
how to best use natural
resources are here,

724
00:43:26,228 --> 00:43:28,188
with these people,
in these places.

725
00:43:29,356 --> 00:43:31,066
We're not going
to bring it here,

726
00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:33,110
we're going to build it here.

727
00:43:33,193 --> 00:43:36,655
[chatter]

728
00:43:36,739 --> 00:43:40,743
-[in Portuguese] Raise your arm
and says "it's so-and-so."

729
00:43:40,826 --> 00:43:42,828
[Fernando Trujillo] It’s
not only about science.

730
00:43:42,911 --> 00:43:45,331
It’s also about solutions.

731
00:43:45,414 --> 00:43:48,709
Also about working with
local communities,

732
00:43:48,792 --> 00:43:50,336
and also about hope.

733
00:43:52,254 --> 00:43:58,260
[♪ inspirational music plays]